Edinburgh skyline at sunset with the Castle, Balmoral clock tower, and Scott Monument silhouetted against a vivid pink and orange sky

Edinburgh Skyline

Thirty years of Edinburgh, seen from where the city is built

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I've been photographing Edinburgh's skyline for thirty years — from scaffolding, from rooftops, from half-built towers and crane cabs swaying in the wind.

As a construction professional, I see the city from places most people never will. These photographs are a record of that privilege: the way light falls on stone at six in the morning, the way the Castle looks from sixty metres up, the way the city changes shape with every new building and every passing season.

This collection is a love letter to a city that never stops surprising me.

Mark Lovelady — Edinburgh photographer
Edinburgh at dusk viewed from beside the Dugald Stewart Monument on Calton Hill, city lights beginning to glow under a purple sky

You see things differently from sixty metres up. The city stops being streets and buildings — it becomes light and stone and sky.

— Mark Lovelady

Prints & Licensing

Each photograph is available as a fine art print, produced on archival paper with museum-quality pigment inks designed to last a lifetime. Commercial licensing is also available for editorial, advertising, and interior use.

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